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24 April 2013

Harrowing garlic before spring irrigation

We are harrowing garlic in these days. Once they are about 15cm height and their roots are properly fixed in the soil, we can perform this task without problems. After that, we are going to begin the spring and summer irrigation, which will be done as frequently as the heat will require until a few days before harvesting them (we are going to talk about that in a future post).

Main aims of this task are: firstly, breaking the crust of the soil so we can get water in order to be infiltrated better and the second aim is we want to kill weeds which can be taken off from the soil or buried by it. As you can see in our pictures, there are several small areas where we will have to do a manual weeding... this task will be unimportant.

We used a mini-cultichissel ploug because we didn't need a deep work, but we needed a great accuracy to avoid damaging garlic. Our tool is a simple mini-cultichissel ploug but some farmers, especially in the area of Chinchón, they use more sophisticated mini-cultichissel plougs which have three tools for one row, as you can see in this video.

I can´t believe, that the distance between one row of garlic and second row of garlic is only 47 cm. How wide is your back tyre?

And the second time, your field is so clean. May I ask you,if you use some herbicide (weedkiller), if yes, please tell me which or only weeding machine?

I saw the video of sophisticated mini-cultichissel plougs which have three tools for one row and it´s incredible that the last wire can´t demage the garlic, because if I see good, that the wire goes over garlic..it is true or goes closely by the garlic?

I now, it´s a lot question....

And at the third, thank you for response, picture, videos and the realy realy perfect job!!!!